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Taraxacum polium
Taraxacum polium, commonly called the Gotland dandelion is a perennial species of dandelion in the family Asteraceae, native to southeastern Sweden. It is primarily found on the island of Gotland, where it inhabits moist grasslands, meadows, woodland margins, and roadsides. The species was first described in 1910 by Swedish botanist Gustav Adolf Hugo Dahlstedt in Arkiv för Botanik, based on material collected from a railway embankment in Endre parish. Although morphologically similar to related species such...
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1045978.